As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. 

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 20th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

Original description: Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times critical of apparent bias in paper's reporting on trans people.

In the first half, we get into the letter, the coverage that provoked it, and the Times' dismal response to the criticism so far. In the second half, we get into the conceptual problems with the coverage and some of the deeper issues in the liberal "just asking questions" framework.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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In this episode we reference some of the following previous episodes that touched on this topic at length:

Our episode with Jules (back when Jules was a guest!) on the problems with Emily Bazelon's article from last year, can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/panic-at-the-gender-clinic-w-jules-gill-peterson-and-charlie-markbreiter-062322

Our episode with Beans Velocci can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/standards-of-care-w-beans-velocci-080422

Our episode from last year on the court ruling re: the ADA and gender dysphoria can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/in-taxonomy-we-trust-091522

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Death Panel Best of 2023: The Gray Lady vs. Trans Life w/ Vicky Osterweil

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Beatrice, Jules and Artie discuss the findings, impact, and fallout of “The Cass Review,” the recently released 388 page NHS-commissioned report that has led media figures across the political spectrum to proclaim that the evidence supporting transition for young people is flawed. But the report, and the ensuing debate, are asking all the wrong questions.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 511 Teaser - The Cass Retort (04/29/24)

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Teaser - The Cass Retort (04/29/24)

Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the coordinated raid on both the CUNY and Columbia encampments on the evening of April 30th. In our view the NYPD last night proved many of the points we make in the episode.

Full Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/solidarity-encampments

More on the call to action here: https://bit.ly/3QpTOBm

Read Nicki's piece from October 18th, mentioned at the top of the episode, "I will never be the same" here:
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/i-will-never-be-the-same/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 512 What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter (05/01/24)

What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter (05/01/24)

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Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remake and expand its own powers, the role that these cases had in securing conservatives’ “New Federalism” revolution, and how disability cases continue to be a site of conservative judicial advancement today.

Read Karen and Katie's article, "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution," here: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/disability-and-the-ongoing-federalism-revolution

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:25:44, 6 May 2024

Death Panel 513 Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)

Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the pending Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US, how politicians frequently invoke a rhetoric of “care” to promote expansions of the carceral system, and how the laws at the center of this Supreme Court case are the same being used to police and sweep solidarity encampments across the US.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/carewashing

Read Tracy's piece, "The New Sundown Towns," here: https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 514 Carewashing and the Right to Public Space w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/09/24)

Carewashing and the Right to Public Space w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/09/24)

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Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how, as of May 1st, hospitals in the US are no longer required to report covid hospitalization data to the federal government, the enormous information gap that leaves in an already opaque covid data landscape, and the set of questions the pandemic has raised about the complicated relationship between the state and scientific knowledge production, namely: of what use is data we don’t act on?

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:13:56, 13 May 2024

Death Panel Teaser - The Pandemic and the Fantasy of Governing Through Statistics (05/13/24)

Teaser - The Pandemic and the Fantasy of Governing Through Statistics (05/13/24)

Beatrice and Jules speak with historian Jiya Pandya about how the Bhopal gas leak—often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory—continues to be an unchecked crisis 40 years later, what it teaches us about how to respond to more recent crises, and how organizers here in the US can get in touch with Bhopal survivor activists who will be coming to the US later this fall.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/bhopal-jiya-pandya

Read Jiya's piece “Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak” here: 
https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9653/8013

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 516 Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24)

Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24)

Every Monday we release an extra full episode just for patrons; this week we've chosen to make today's patron episode public in hopes that it encourages people to donate to Gaza Muni (link below). Death Panel is entirely listener supported, so to support our work and get a second episode every week and our entire back catalogue, go to https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice and Abby discuss how the ongoing water crisis in Palestine is a tool of genocide, how to understand the centrality of water and sanitation systems to all of the infrastructure needed to support life, and what Death Panel listeners and contacts in Gaza tell us we can do to help.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/water-gaza

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Death Panel 517 Water for Gaza (05/20/24)

Water for Gaza (05/20/24)

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the recent push by state and local governments to criminalize masking in public space, in some cases introducing new legislation to make existing anti-mask laws more severe, and take a close look at HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” a bill currently being debated in North Carolina that perfectly illustrates the links between covid activism, abolition, and the fight for Palestinian liberation.

Transcript forthcoming.

Find audio files of the North Carolina Senate Judiciary and Rules committee meetings from last week here:
https://bit.ly/3K9ypsO

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 518 “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” (05/23/24)

“Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” (05/23/24)

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Beatrice and Abby discuss last night’s horrific assault on Rafah, liberal handwringing that the bombings may have been somehow “justified”—or that, in the words of one Atlantic writer, in these circumstances “it is possible to kill children legally”—and how events like this have lasting effects that reverberate outward into forms of violence that, to quote our listener G, “might not be as spectacular or obvious as a bomb.”

Read Afnan's letter, which Beatrice reads in the episode, "A Palestinian Healthcare Worker on the Water Crisis in Gaza | عاملة صحية فلسطينية تتحدث عن أزمة المياه في غزة" here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/a-palestinian-healthcare-worker-on

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 519 Teaser - Rafah (05/27/24)

Teaser - Rafah (05/27/24)

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on March 18th 2024, and quickly became one of our most widely requested unlocks. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them.

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 500 On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (Unlocked)

On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (Unlocked)

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abby Cartus. 

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